Exploring the Fundamental Features of Translation
A guidebook for students, teachers, and translation specialists covering subjects from introductory to advanced levels. Its unique bottom-up strategy addresses translation issues as major concerns for researchers, simplifying the research work of any user.
This book introduces a new analytical framework for cultural linguistics. By incorporating semiotics into cultural conceptualization, it offers new insights into the interplay between language and culture, shedding light on culturally-constructed concepts.
Master the teaching of listening and speaking. This guide provides practical techniques to overcome challenges, engaging assessment tools to build on student strengths, and innovative ways to use technology. An essential, resource-rich springboard for boosting these core skills.
This book identifies grammatical constraints on adverbs, proposing a novel syntactic hierarchy with five distinct classes to explain their distribution. Unlike with adjectives, adverb ordering is not predictable from a single factor, but is connected to meaning and usage.
This book explores language research in the digital age. Using authentic data, it investigates L1 syntactic structure, L1-L2 contact, and L2 pedagogy. It provides valuable insights into Romanian and English, highlighting new research avenues for language specialists.
Understanding Edgar Allan Poe
This book argues that the horrific experiences in Poe’s tales are a blueprint for empathy. To truly understand another person, we must go out of our minds, enter theirs, and confront the terror of being lost in a world that is not our own.
Sooner, Faster, Better Reading for All
Disadvantaged children fall months behind in reading and never catch up. This book offers a cost-free, 7-point plan to change this. It ensures all children, including those with dyslexia, can become confident readers by the end of Year 1 and critical readers later on.
This collection explores the diverse landscape of heritage language education in Greece and Cyprus. Through empirical studies of community, day, and family schools, it establishes a novel evidence base to act as a catalyst for research and drive change in policy and practice.
This research collection focuses on language study trends following the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores topics from teacher motivation and technology to student speaking anxiety, perfectionism, cultural influences, and linguistic analysis in English Language Teaching.
Variation in Linguistics
Language is rule-based, yet constantly varies. Understanding this variation helps us understand the forces that shape language itself. This book presents interdisciplinary research that sheds empirical light on the variables behind systematic variation in language.
Modalities of the Translation-Ideology Nexus
This study of V. G. Kiernan’s translation of Muhammad Iqbal shows how mistranslations abound in his work. Contrary to the common view, translation is not neutral but deeply enmeshed in cross-cultural power struggles, perpetuating the marginalization of non-European works.
Western Echoes in Arabic Voices
This book delves into the socio-cultural journey of dubbing Western content into Arabic. From ‘Monsters Inc.’ to ‘The Simpsons’, it uncovers the intricate process of transcreating visuals, irony, and stereotypes in a unique blend of academic research and engaging storytelling.
Linguistic Mapping of the Regional Varieties of Khasi
This linguistic analysis of Khasi varieties uncovers intricate regional variations. Using innovative GIS mapping, it highlights dialect borders and explores vowel and consonant patterns. The study reveals fascinating lexical and phonetic differences among the varieties.
This volume presents cutting edge linguistic research across syntax, semantics, morphology, and translation studies. Drawing on data from English, Greek, Romanian, and other European languages, it explores challenging structures and their translation.
This book analyses the transposition of irony and humour as cultural translation, bridging different worldviews. Exploring underrepresented cultures like Finland and Romania, this transdisciplinary volume will interest translation scholars, linguists, teachers, and practitioners.
This book guides language teachers and educators through the nuts and bolts of flipping the classroom. It reviews key factors for a successful learning experience, from pedagogical design to the application of digital technologies for creating materials and activities.
This book questions the credibility of modern Quran translations. It addresses whether translations can be a true reflection of the divine message, assesses flaws in English versions, and discusses the best methods for translating religious texts, supported by expert interviews.
This book presents a mathematical theory on the deep structure of language, connecting Shannon’s theory with cognitive skills. It proposes a framework for researchers to devise a theory of human communication that includes meaning—the great absent element in information theory.
This book illustrates the objectives and construction of reduced English forms like Basic English and Globish. All share a common goal: to build a language tool for effective international communication, a lingua franca for a globalized world. For students and scholars.
Hybrid Learning in English Language Teaching
This collection offers diverse perspectives on English Language Teaching, grounded in empirical studies. Exploring concepts from motivation to technology, it offers insights into the future of hybrid learning and is essential for all ELT professionals and teacher trainers.
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